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You're not the first, second, or ten thousandth person to have this thought. But dark matter fits the phenomena better than any proposed modification of gravit
by idlewords 11y ago
You're not the first, second, or ten thousandth person to have this thought. But dark matter fits the phenomena better than any proposed modification of gravity. See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster for a textbook example.
- nikhilgk 11y agoAlso, look at the Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshoi_Cosmological_Simulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshoi_Cosmological_Simulatio...). Simulating the universe with the currently accepted model of dark matter successfully predicted the large scale structure of the universe. As a model for explaining observations, dark matter does hold some merit.
- adrianbg 11y agoCould it be that dark matter is stretched out along an axis that's invisible to us and gravity? Maybe the particles don't interact with each other or anything else because they're not actually that close to each other except when projected onto the dimensions familiar to us, and on which gravity acts.